A Re-orientalist Approach to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The objective of this study is to draw upon the Orients’ skewed representation perpetuated and disseminated by Khaled Hosseini in his Anglophone fiction The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns under the framework of Re-orientalism. Re-orientalism extends itself as a concept where the Oriental author propagates a literature mystifying the East as barbaric and uncivilized and in turn validating the hypothesis to suppress and rule the Orient. This study adopts a Qualitative approach by applying the technique of close reading with Re-orientalism as the theoretical framework. The findings of this study show the Orient in a monolithic and essentialized manner where they are exoticized, caricatured and concocted as antithesis of the enlightened West in the selected works.
Author: Ihsan Ullah
Institution: International Islamic University, Islamabad
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4385508161